Russian official says no drug trafficking currently observed from Ukraine amid special military operation
An interior ministry official says such trafficking had previously been recorded around the turn of 2020.
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A senior Russian interior ministry official has said that no drug trafficking from Ukraine into Russia has been observed during the ongoing special military operation, while recalling that targeted trafficking along that route had previously been recorded around the turn of 2020.
Kirill Smurov, acting head of the Russian Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for Narcotics Control, made the comments in remarks reported by Russian state media. He said law enforcement agencies had tracked drug trafficking from Ukraine to Russia prior to the start of the conflict, but did not detail current enforcement data to support the claim that such trafficking has since stopped.
The statement comes as Russian officials have periodically addressed cross-border crime issues in the context of the broader conflict with Ukraine, which Moscow refers to officially as a special military operation. Independent verification of narcotics trafficking patterns along the Russia-Ukraine border has not been made publicly available alongside the official's remarks.
Russian authorities have in the past linked counter-narcotics enforcement to broader security operations in the conflict zone, though officials have not published detailed statistics in this instance.
The claim has not been independently corroborated by outside monitoring organizations.
Sources
- Russia reports no drug trafficking from Ukraine amid special military operation — official — TASS (Russia)
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